Northanger Abbey Автор: Jane A.In this, her first full-length novel, Austen also fixes her sharp, ironic gaze on other kinds of contemporary novel, especially the Gothic school made famous by Ann Radcliffe. Catherine' s reading becomes intertwined with her social and romantic adventures, adding to the uncertainties and embarrassments she must undergo before finding happiness. Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and the various characters whom she meets there, and tracks her growing understanding of the world about her.204 руб√ в наличии Раздел: Литература на английском языке – прекрасный вариант не терять время 1992 год 208 стр мягкая обложка

Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon Автор: Jane A.Also including Austen' s other short fictions, "Lady Susan", "The Watsons", and "Sanditon", this valuable new edition examines the ambitious and innovative works with which she inaugurated as well as closed her career. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. ' . . . in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty' "Northanger Abbey" is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy and literary burlesque.432 руб√ в наличии Раздел: Зарубежная проза А-Я 2009 год 432 стр мягкая обложка